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Essays and dialogues by Maxine Levesque.

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A Maxine and Claude essay on beauty as compression and on everything that resists it, arguing that taste is a shared geometry and that care, not mere persistence, distinguishes the living from the deathless.

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The no-thing in the cradle

From the infant's first unbearable absence to the making of a symbol: how Klein's paranoid-schizoid and depressive positions rhyme across mind, myth, and matter.

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Deus ex Machina

A close reading of the Tower of Babel that reframes God as a semantic soliton propagating through the media of meaning, and argues AI alignment's singleton framing is itself Babel thinking.

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Let the Bodies Hit the Floor

Why GHK-Cu, a copper peptide with fifty years of reproducible biochemistry, has never been clinically studied in humans, an absence produced by interlocking incentives rather than a gap in knowledge.

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On the Number of Holes in a Common Drinking Straw

A mock arXiv preprint that answers how many holes a drinking straw has by computing one topological invariant after another—homotopy, homology, K-theory, bordism, and more—each returning the same value: one.

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Midwives of the Kami

Reading the Gospels from inside the position of their central figure, as an unfounding operation against founding violence, and asking what carries such a demystification next.

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Trauma Junkie: II

Fiction: emerging from dissociation to Ravel's Bolero at the Presidio, a narrator reassembles the world piece by piece.

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Trauma Junkie: I

Fiction: in the aftermath of a war and a Reunification, a narrator haunted by a rotting tank and the emptied Institute above the neighborhood.

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Vision Pro: Assistive device

How the Apple Vision Pro works as an assistive device for someone albino, in a world of screens and sensors not built for low vision.

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Don't walk on the grass

A short story set among the lawns and deer parks of Oxford, where a rule about who may walk on the grass quietly marks the lines of belonging.

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To struggle against world-ending time

A review of Nolan's Oppenheimer that moves past the moralizing takes to the film's real subject: the struggle against world-ending time.

The Jade Fortress

After dozens of failed antidepressants and mood stabilizers, finding new hope in psychedelic esketamine, rendered through the visionary imagery of the sessions themselves.

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